Peff commemorates the death of ReBirth with an Acid House Funeral Dirge. Propellerhead had to remove the app due to a copyright claim from Roland.
Which is fucking crazy, considering ReBirth has been around in one for or another since 1996! It is more than a little worrying that Roland has suddenly become litigious. There are an awful lot of other people violating their IP for the last few decades.

RIP in Peace, ReBirth. Throughout its long life it has been equal parts ahead of its time and behind the times.

Video Description:

Because this day, June 15, 2017 marks the official end of Propellerhead ReBirth RB-338, I'm revisiting an old RBS song file.

Reader Comments 8

The only theory that makes sense of "why now?" is: Roland is gearing up for a massive lawsuit against Behringer. To move forward, Roland needs to show they have aggressively been defending their intellectual property.

Trigger warning for the censorists i gotta say it, Fuck roland, they are decades behind on thier gear just like this lawsuit, its a pathetic act. Where were they as ios evolved? A joke company, take your scatter fx and go file for bankruptcy! My loyalty is with companies who have embraced the evolution of music production rather than recycle the same outdated crap and shit on other companies with this counterproductive copyright abuse. This is really lame and if they go after behringer i hope behringer comes out on top cuz behringer is and has been doing good things for us all, its a truely inovative company, roland is a ghost from the past.

lol re: ^Behringer. They've been successfully ripping off designs from other people for a while now, so they're probably pretty good at evading shit like this.

Hopefully doesn't affect outfits like Jomox though. :-\___________________________________________I can just see the discussion in a boardroom:

Exec: "Well, the problem is that we're a legend in the business, but many of our early successes were total accidents (TB303) and we haven't really put out anything too groundbreaking or too popular lately - and now the market's flooded with all level of competition eating away our sanctified market share. What should we do?"

Accountant: "Hmmm. Time to try and monetize your rep and image by any means necessary - have you thought of doing limited edition sneakers with your branding on them? We need to make the Roland brand tantamount to electronic music religious canon. Anyone heretically using images of your iconic gear will be taxed and hounded until they cease and fall into line with the New Way. Oh, what's a thing that's really hot right now that people aren't sure they need but we can charge through the nose for because, hey, we're Roland! Wait... I know... cloud services!"